Harlan Ellison's lawsuit about the forgotten TV show Future Cop involved fellow sci-fi author Isaac Asimov in a roundabout ...

In a letter sent to the FBI’s director J. Edgar Hoover in 1960, a classified source used Asimov’s claim that the world’s first nuclear power plant was built in Soviet Russia as evidence of his ...

Despite writing some of the most influential sci-fi stories of all time, filmmakers have found it a huge challenge to adapt ...

In 1988, Isaac Asimov co-created the ABC sci-fi series Probe, starring Parker Stevenson and Ashley Crow, that felt ahead of ...

Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) wrote 470 books on every subject from robots to Shakespeare and an estimated 90,000 letters, hundreds of which are collected here by his brother, an adjunct associate ...

Science fiction, we can’t escape it. It’s quite literally everywhere we look. Whether it is the warp drive from “Star Trek” or the artificial intelligence from “I, Robot,” science fiction provides ...

Isaac Asimov had a PhD in chemistry. His first sci-fi story was rejected by a publisher in 1938. (Photo by Phillip Leonian from New York via Wikimedia Commons) One of the greatest science-fiction ...

A friend of the brilliant writer and biochemist Isaac Asimov has stumbled upon one of the professor's lost essays in a bundle of old files. Scientist Arthur Obermayer said he came across the forgotten ...

The indefatigably curious chemist and science-fiction icon championed rationality for the common good in 20 million published words. By David Leslie Asimov spent more than half of the twentieth ...

April Fools’ Day is the worst day on the Internet, so let’s appreciate a hoax that's actually good. It's one of the best scientific jokes ever told: Isaac Asimov’s masterful send-up of academic ...